GIT Ignore

Purpose:

Sometimes, we do not want to commit the sensitive file such as config file to git. In order to handle it, we can use .gitignore file to claim that which files will be excluded for the committing.

Step 1:

Create a file called “.gitignore”

touch .gitignore

Step 2:

Write the untracked file’s name to “.gitignore” file

echo xxx.xxx >> .gitignore

Step 3:

Sometimes, if you want to remove some committed files from git, you need to do the following commands

git rm --cached xxx.xxx

Step 4:

The normal way to commit

git commit -m "Remove the committed untracked file" git push